Bob Marley

A malapropism
is using the wrong word instead of another word because they sound similar to each other,
and which is funny as a result.
Each numbered word is a malapropism.
What words were replaced intentionally by malapropisms?

Listen to the song

The prophet of justice

Some words in the text are not well-chosen.
These sound like the correct word but have a different meaning.
They are malapropisms.
Write the correct word in the gaps for each Malapropism
Try to find the correct word that sounds like these words.

Many musicians have influenced modern society, but it's hard to think of
another who was as 1 ironic ____________ iconic
as Bob Marley. Decades after his death, his portrait, his
hairstyle and even his way of talking are recognisable as 2 cymbalssymbols ____________
of the political and moral
ideas he spread. Although he lived only 36 years,
Marley expressed a universal message
of peace, justice and brotherly love that reached
every continent and inspired
the people of every nation.

From his birth in 1945, Robert Nesta Marley represented a spirit that 3 transgressedtranscended ____________
race and social class.
His father, Norval, was a white, middle-class employee of the Jamaican
government. His mother, Cedella, was a poor, black teenager.
The marriage didn't
last long, however,
social pressure from Norval's family drove the couple apart.

Like many other Jamaicans in the 1950s,
Cedella and young Bob moved from
their rural community to the capital, Kingston, hoping to find more
opportunities there.
Instead, they found a ghetto that made clear the 4 ambulanceimbalance ____________
in Jamaican society.

Bob soon discovered that his main interest was music.
In the evening, he and
a friend, Neville O'Riley Livingston, often listened to a
radio
station from New Orleans
that played songs by Curtis Mayfield, Ray Charles and Fats Domino.

A local singer helped the
two boys develop their own singing 5 agilityability ____________
and meet others who wanted to do the
same. One of their new friends was Winston Hubert McIntosh.

In 1962, Marley successfully 6 auditedauditioned ____________
for a small record company and began
recording songs. He invited his friends to form a group. Livingston called
himself Bunny wailer: McIntosh, who later changed his name to Peter Tosh,
along with Marley's 7 packing backing ____________
singers, became 'Bob Marley and the Wailers'.
The group's first song. "Simmer Down" reached number one
in the Jamaican music charts,
and about 30 other songs followed.

The year 1966 represented a 8 yearningturning ____________
point in Marley's life. He got married,
to Rita Anderson. He also spent several months in America visiting his mother,
who had remarried and moved there; and he became a 9 followerhollower
of Rastafarianism.
____________

This is the belief that Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie was the direct
descendant of biblical King Solomon. Selassie's accession to the
throne
in 1930 was seen as a
sign of an era when black people around the world would be able to achieve
social
justice
through their own efforts. While doing so, they needed to attempt to
understand God's work, which 10 manicuredmanifested ____________
itself in the natural order of things.

God, and by extension this natural order,
demanded a respect so strong that
it bordered on fear.
One biblical word for this is "dread". Cutting one's hair for
example, could be seen as an unnatural act, so Rastafarians let it grow into 11 padlocksdreadlocks ____________

In a 1979 interview,
Marley explained that another common Rasta practice -
smoking marijuana -
had to do with slowing down and
focusing on things that are
spiritually important.
"The world will confuse you,
and you're worried, and you don't
have no time to think," he said. "Herb is acting to give you, like, a time for
yourself, so you can live, if you use it."

Because the use of 12 Mary's bananamarijuana ____________
was illegal - anyone caught 13 provokingsmoking ____________
it could
expect to spend 18 months
in jail
-
it also became a symbol of
defiance to old-fashioned power structures.
Marley, Wailer and Tosh began to write
songs with such
titles as "Soul Rebel",
"I Shot the Sheriff" and "Get up,
Stand up".

"Get up! Stand up! Stand up for your right!" they sang. "Get
up! Stand up! Don't give up the fight!..../ If you knew what life is worth,
/ You would look for yours on Earth. /
And now you see the light: / You stand up for your right."

That
massagemessage
got to the world because The Wailers had been in London in 1971,
working on a recording project.
Marley went to talk to the head of Island Records, a
company that sold Caribbean music to Jamaican 14 emminenceimmigrants ____________
in Britain. This gave The
Wailers opportunities unknown to other
artists back home: an advance, use of the best recording
studios, and a proper album that was heavily 15 promptedpromoted.
____________
A tour of Britain and America - a first for a reggae band - soon followed.

Wailer wasn't
comfortable
with touring, and he left the group in 1973. Tosh
started a solo
career. Marley continued to produce hit after hit,
with "No Woman, No Cry". "Revolution" and "Them Belly Full (But Why Hungry)"

One day in 1977,
Marley noticed a lump on his toe that wouldn't go away. The
lump was skin cancer. Doctors wanted to 16 amputateagitate ____________
his toe, but Marley wouldn't let them:
his religious 17 briefs ____________
didn't allow it, he said.
The cancer spread to the rest of his body, and in 1981 he died.

Marley's son Ziggy has carried on his father's work,touring as Zippy
Marley and the Melody Makers.
Marley's mother,
Cedella Booker, has also become a star in the reggae world.
In her 1996 biography of Bob,
she said he had been "chosen by God to stir up the mind and 18 polesoul ____________
of the people.
When you put the truth out
there, it has a lot of power.
It's marvellous to know that one man can touch so many."

"The reservoir of muisc he has left behind is like an encyclopedia,"
says Judy Mowart of the I-Threes, a musical group that included Marley's wife.
"When you need to refer to a certain situation of crisis,
there will always be a Bob Marley song that will relate to it.
Bob was a musical 19 profitprophet ____________

Marley's family has held tight to control of the singer's estate and has been
reluctant
to give interviews.
This year however, it agreed to open its private
archives for the first time,
to film director Kevin Macdonald
(The Last king of Scotland),
in order to produce a definite 20 biology ____________ biography
of the singer.
The film, to be called Marley, will be in cinemas this autumn.

Yeah, I've been down on the rock for so long, (so long)
I seem to wear a permanent screw; (screw-oo-oo-oo-oo)
I've been down on the rock for so long, (so long)
I seem to wear a permanent screw. (screw-oo-oo-oo-oo)
But-a I - I'm gonna stare in the sun,
Let the rays shine in my eyes.
I - I'm a gonna take a just-a one step more
'Cause I feel like bombin' a church -
Now - now that you know that the preacher is lyin'.
So who's gonna stay at home
When - when the freedom fighters are fighting?